Amphibolips q-marilandica-marbled-oak-apple (sexgen)
The inducer of this gall is unknown or undescribed.
Family: Cynipidae | Genus: Amphibolips
Hosts: Quercus marilandica
Detachable: detachable
Color: white, green
Texture: hairless
Abundance:
Shape: globular
Season: Spring
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Alignment: erect
Walls: thick, radiating-fibers
Location: bud, upper leaf, lower leaf, leaf midrib, flower
Form: oak apple
Cells: monothalamous
Possible Range:i
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Our ID Notes may contain important tips necessary for distinguishing this gall from similar galls and/or important information about the taxonomic status of this gall inducer.
Gallformers ID Notes
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A green, hairless, globular gall with thick walls, often but not always marbled with white, containing radiating fibers holding a single larval cell. On leaves of Quercus marilandica in the spring. This is likely the sexual generation gall of Amphibolips globulus. So far observed only in Texas.
”- Gallformers Contributors: (2024) Gallformers ID Notes©
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Unless noted otherwise in the ID Notes, observations of this gall are collected in the Observation Field Gallformers Code with value q-marilandica-marbled-oak-apple on iNaturalist. You can view them here:
